Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and DevelopmentHollingworth, Leta Stetter
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Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development
Hollingworth, Leta Stetter
Gifted children; Stanford-Binet Test
_November 9-17, 1934_. Age 10 years 7 months. During this week
H was given a number of tests by Leta S. Hollingworth, with the
following results:
Stanford-Binet: Mental Age: 18-6; IQ, over 174, "unmeasured
by the test."
Intelligence Scale CAVD
Levels I-M Score 394
Levels M-Q Score 392
Coöperative General Science Test for College Students: Score,
17; Percentile, 11.
PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
_March 8, 1930_
H NORM
Standing height 47 inches 45.2
Sitting height 24 inches
Weight 48.25 pounds 41.7
_April 21, 1933_
H NORM
Standing height 54.5 inches 51.1
Weight 66.5 pounds 57.5
INTELLECTUAL ABILITY
There is a collection of many records showing H's reactions and
opinions from infancy up to the age of 9 or 10. These contain apt
comments, sage remarks, and discriminating judgments. They reveal
a lively intellectual curiosity and a socialized attitude.
H's parents have preserved copies of poems and short plays that
H has written. A collection of the "best ones," selections written
between 5.5 and 8.5 years of age, covers seventeen typewritten
pages. Among them are the following.
If I had Aladdin's lamp, you see,
I'd give one wish to you and me.
And then we'd wish for every toy,
That every child should have some joy.
_Age 5 years 6 months_
On the clover fields he roams,
In the mountains,
At the homes,
Makes the trees and flowers grow,
And manufactures pure, white snow.
--God--
_Age 8 years 6 months_
There was an old soldier
He was all dressed in brown
This soldier had an honor--
He was known all over town.
This old soldier had a misfortune,
That was known too.
His beard it covered his medal,
And people couldn't see through.
_Age 8 years 6 months_
There are in the collection brief stories, continued tales,
short verses, longer poems, dialogues, and plays divided into
scenes, with appropriate stage instructions.
From after the tenth year there is an undated poem, submitted
to the examiner September 19, 1939, by the aunt of H. This poem,
entitled "The Gospel of Intolerance," won a prize in a poetry
contest. Of it the aunt writes:
It was fished out from the wastebasket by my sister. To the
question why she had thrown away the "Gospel of Intolerance,"
H answered that she did not think it was worth keeping, that
she had no particular idea in mind when writing it, and that
she was just practicing on the typewriter and thought of the
phrase "They said no," and then the rest just came by itself.
Incidentally, H has never read the Bible.
"The Gospel of Intolerance" occupies a full single-spaced
typewritten page. It begins as follows:
The Gospel of Intolerance
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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